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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Call for paper proposal on comic books and superheroes

Call for paper proposal on comic books and superheroes47th Annual Meeting Florida Conference of Historians in Jacksonville, FL February 27 through March 1, 2008

From the debut of Superman in 1938 through Marvel’s Comics’ Civil War storyline this year, superhero comic books have made an indelible mark on American culture. The current popularity of stories and characters originating in comic books has expanded interest in the medium and in the superhero genre which itself incorporates a variety of other genres. Moreover, recent scholarship has striven to define the superhero’s unique relationship to American culture. Submissions that address the ways the comic book superhero represents, constructs, and distorts American culture are welcomed.